We met up with Wojciech Zaremba at the O’Reilly AI conference in SF. He took some time to talk to us about some of his recent research related to reinforcement learning and robots. We also discussed AI safety and the hype around OpenAI.

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Featuring:

• Wojciech Zaremba – Website, GitHub, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Woj’s talk at O’Reilly AI
• OpenAI
• OpenAI blog
• The Dota playing team of AIs from OpenAI
• Microsoft Tay Chatbot
• Reinforcement learning Wikipedia
• Berkeley course CS294-112 on Reinforcement learning. Includes pdf notes and YouTube videos of the lectures.

Books

• “Deep Learning” by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
• “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction” by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

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